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Summer for kids means free time, fun, and days spent outdoors. Yet as much as our over scheduled kids crave this down time, research also shows that for school-aged kids, the transition back to school in the fall is greatly helped by reinforcing learning during the summer months. Finding the right teaching methods and tools for home, though, can prove challenging.

Educents marketplace for educational products offers parents everything we need to make learning at home happen during school holidays as well as after school and on weekends. With educational items ranging from full curriculum for homeschooling, to supplemental educational products, to books, to reading and science kits, blocks and coloring books, Educents presents fun, stimulating activities for your young child.

This awesome online marketplace brings together thousands of individual content creators, small businesses, edtech companies and publishers. You buy directly from these companies on Educents platform, making it easy to discover new and innovative products that will get your kids excited about learning. Plus, every purchase you make empowers a small business to do what they love, teach your children.Since its launch in April 2013, Educents has saved educators over $25 million dollars and helped more than 500,000 teachers, homeschoolers and parents gain access to educational materials all in one place. They “envision a world where each child no matter what her or his community has the necessary tools to excel in learning.” Love that!Eager to give Educents a try, I ordered Hooked on Phonics: Complete Learn to Read Kit, an award-winning reading program that has helped over 5 million kids become confident readers. Since my youngest Marielle (6) has just started to read, the timing was right!

Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read uses a proven, simple, and fun method to give your child a strong foundation in phonics and reading skills. The kit contains all 8 levels of the award-winning program, from Pre-K to 2nd Grade.

With 36 storybooks, workbooks, DVD’s, video streaming, stickers and sets of letter and picture flashcards, this marvelous kit gives you exactly what you need to get your child hooked on reading. Marielle loved it, diving right in. If, like me, you’re constantly on the hunt for educational activities for your children, check out Educents. You’ll be happy — and relieved – you did.

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